The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST

QUEEN VICTORIA has presented Nine. AlbanT
with the jubilee commemoration medal, in dia-
monds and sapphres.-
VENEERING is now being used upon cigar boxes
| in this country. The boxes are constructed of
ash, with cedar veneer as thin as paper on the
inside and outside.
THE MExIcANs are preparing TO properly cele-
brate the the four hundredth anniversary of the
| discovery of America at the capital of that
| country. The Duke Of Verragua of Spain is n
! legitimate descendant of Christopher Columbus,
and he heartily approves OF the celebration.
THE registration in Philadelphia generally
largely exceeds that of New York, although at
| the last Presidential election New York polled
| 10000 votes to Philadephias 1900 The
| probabilities are that in Philadelphia there are
| double the number of false registrations that
| appear
| 1T is now time for every one to throw up his
hands and quit. George Francis Train intends
to publish 900 books of 400 pages each, one of
! them to appear every day until all are out he
says he has ten trunks full of material for them,
| and that the subjects to be treated or include
everything on, in, and over the earth.
LABoRERs digging cut for a railroad near
Canterbury uncovered an almost perfect circu-
lar well built of fnts. Local antiquareS say
| that il is the opening to some suuterranean
| passage used by the Romans when they calnped
! there. The workmen had previously found near
|
diers.
II is interesting to note just at this time that
a new translation of Shakespeare's plays has
been made in Dutch Burgersdyk, the famous
| poet of Holland, has made the translation,
which is said to be work of art His Macbeth"
was recently given before a brilliant audience at
| an Amsterdam theatre and received great an
| plause. The popularity of Shakespeare in Hol-
| land and Germany Is remarkable.
INSTRUCTION in the use of tools is about to lie
| introduced in all the primary schools of France.
! 1t has already been introduced in many, and
| has been successfully tried at such schools in
| Manchester, in England. 1t is found that the
use of tools furnishes an agreeable relaxation.
| Apprenticeship schools, which are tue next
| higher grade, are taking the place of the old
| apprenticeship system in Germany, France and
Switzerland.
A FARMER AND HIS son have had most I'M
pleasant series of adventures at Whit, Tex.
| First, the father fell into abandoned well,
and, then the son came tumbling after. The
well was sixty feet Deep and there was an ugly
| moccasin snake at the bottom. To make mat
| tiers worse, it began to rain the water rose in
| the well and the earth caved in around them.
| They passed twenty hours in this plight, and
| were finally rescued by passers-by who heard
| their cries.
J Gov. RAMSAY says that the venerable Simon
Cameron once explained to him how it was that
so many hotel-keepers bear military titles.
| When the revolutionary war closed the business
of the country was in a chaotic condition, all
| industrial affairs having suffered a complete
prostration during the seven years struggle
| The American officers came out of the
without any occupations ana as poor as a lot of
church mice. About the only business they
could go into that didn't require capital was
tavern keeping. So it came to pass in a short
time that the head of every hostelry in the
country was a Colonel Major a Captain.
And from that day to this it has been regarded
as the proper thing to invest hotel-keeper with
a military title 1t comes to him in the line of
honorable tradition.
GEN. GREEN B. RAUM, chairman of the Wash
ington committee appointed to provide for the
erection of statue to Gen. Logan at the
tonal capital was called upon by Col. Alberto
Malo, of the Mexican army, and informed that
the American colony in Mexico, together with
a number of Mexicans, had obtained and desired
to present to the monument committee an onyx
slab from the Mexican mines. The slab, which
is Pc feet square. cost 81 900 in Mexico. 1t is
now in New York, and will be at once sent to
| Washington to the committee, which will re-
quest Mrs. Logan to be custodian of it until the
monument shall be completed. 1t is expected
that the soldiers will contribute the fund for the
monument, and Congress will undoubtedly fur
niSh suitable place to erect it upon some of the
| government reservations
AN exceedingly plain and unimpressive look
ing woman making her way slowly down
Broadway when she discovered her reflection in
| big mirror that had been set out on the side
walk. Thereupon she stopped short, crossed
| the street with an air of elegant leisure to the
mirror, and stepping up to it, surveyed herself
| complacently, rearranged her hat, lifted her
veil, took what is known, believe, as a pow
| der rag from her hand satchel, touched up her
/ face with an air of pleasantly and repose, and
then dropped the rag in the Satchel again At
| ter this she fixed her veil with satisfaction, gave
her hustle two or three vicious thumpS, pulled
down the back OF her dress, pulled down her col
lar and sailed down the street again. the observed
of all observers, but not embarrassed in the
| slightest degree by the attention she had at
tracted.
SAYS the Lake Geneva Cwis) Ners: "On
Wednesday novel scene was witnessed by one
of the pupils of the high school while looking
out of window. DR.. Macdonald had left his
horse and buggy in care of his faithful dog Pard
while ne went in to make professional call
The horse got uneasy and started off on brisk
trot. Pard grabbed the lines, got up into the
seat and commenced to pull with all his might.
He would brace himself and pull. but the
cushion was smooth and he would slip. where
upon he would hitch back, brace himself and
pull again. Finally he became disguised,
dropped the lines and coiled himself I'D in ne
front part of the buggy. prepared 10 meet any
fate which might await him. We have had oc-
casion to speak of this dogs adventures in these
columns once or twice before; now we insist he
ought to be made citizen and given the free
dom OF the CITY,"
PROBABLY the most interesting and valuable
curiosity in the firemen's museum at No en-
CINE house at jackson, Mich, is the one brought
IN day or two ago by a farmer, whose name
the men did not learn. 1t has been found to be
a South American black vulture though the
farmer, thought it a black eagle He SAID he saw
it running about his farm lew days ago, and
chased it into brush pile where he captured
it, The bird is about the size OF hen turkey
and its main color is rich blue-black though
many of the larger feathers and plllmes are bril-
liantly colored, making the bird a very hand
rsome one The head is small and nearly bald.
and the heak is about three inches long strong,
and a little hooked. About The centre of the
upper portion Of the beall is a comparatively
large hole, cut by nature, nearly rectangular in
form. The bird measures five feet from tin to
tip OF its wings, which very large and strong
in comparison to its body, showing that it is ca
pable of long flights and of carrying considera-
bic weight in its talons
THE critical condition of the relations be.
tween China and Corea may be largely traced
to the opening of the latter country to inter
course with the United States and with
European powers. SO long as the 'herrnit
kingdom" remained true to its traditions of
isolation. its real political status as regards
China was an affair which evidently troubled
very little the two countries chiefly concerned
But with the entrance of vessels other than
Chinese and ,Tanapaca MT